Leadership In Sun Tzu's The Art Of War

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In this quote we see how Sun Tzu is trying to say that the leader is essentially in charge of what happens to his people. He controls their fate because if he not an effective leader his people will pay the price. In the business world if the leader does a poor job then the company will fail and his employees will get fired. Leaders have to use a bunch of skills and techniques to ensure that their companies do well and his employees don’t get laid off. In his book The Art of War Sun Tzu gives us a lot of strategy for war but they can also be applied to the business world because after all the market is a war zone. In addition, we see Alex and Lou use the techniques Sun Tzu mentions in one way or another. One key skill a leader should have is to be able to plan. Sun Tzu also mentions this in the first chapter of the book, The Art of War. In this chapter Sun Tzu essentially talks about planning and strategy. In one quote he says “According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one’s plans”. In business terms we can sum this quote up in SWOT analysis. A leader should be able to analyze its organizations strengths, …show more content…

In the 1960s we saw that IBM was getting majority of its income from the System 360. This was a very good time for IBM because sales were booming and it was growing. Eventually sales begin to decline and the company nearly died because its plans and strategies did not change with the circumstance. Then Louis V. Gerstner comes in as the new CEO and turns the company around over time through his leadership. He does this by changing the company’s plans and the way the company operated because circumstances were now different. This shows that leaders play a huge role in the fate of its people and organization. In the IBM book we see Lou shares the same opinion because he says, “It’s been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person”. This person Lou refers to is the

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